Born into slavery on George Washington’s plantation, Ona Judge’s daring escape highlights the ideological contradictions of personal liberty in early...
For those enslaved, it was the perpetrator of countless horrors. So why did almost 200,000 African-Americans put their lives on the line to preserve the United...
No two Americans had the same experience of the Civil War – and everyone remembers it differently. Through the stories they told – and the artifacts that survived – various narratives...
